Somi Lee has been making waves on the LPGA Tour this year, especially since she earned her first LPGA Tour victory at the 2025 Dow Championship in June. And while the spotlight often shines on the five-time winner on the LPGA of Korea Tour, there’s another figure quietly shaping her success. Her caddie, Joakim Hilton .

Joakim Hilton is a resident of Sweden and stepped up to take on Lee’s bag when her previous caddie, Andrew Tomasi , parted ways with her last year. Lee shuffled between Tomasi and her father, Tohyeun , on the bag. But finally settled with Hilton as her permanent looper.

Notably, Joakim Hilton isn’t new to elite-level golf.

He competed collegiately from 2001 to 2003, played professionally until 2014, and began caddying on the men’s European and Challenge Tours in 20

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